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Medieval and Renaissance Studies

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Tales of Times Now Past

Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection

By Marian Ury
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Fiction, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

The Evolution of the Japanese Past and Perfective Suffixes

By Karen Sandness
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Explains the evolution of Japanese suffixes and provides an aid to scholars reading classical Japanese

Women and Class in Japanese History

Edited by Hitomi Tonomura, Anne Walthall, Wakita Haruko, and Haruko Wakita
Subjects: Gender Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Offers critical insights into gender and social class in Japan from Japanese and Western scholars

Government and Local Power in Japan, 500-1700

A Study Based on Bizen Province

By John Hall
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Political Science, Criminology, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

An influential interpretation of premodern Japanese political and institutional history.

Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan

The Works of the Poet-Priest Kamo no Chomei

By Rajyashree Pandey
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Challenges the rigid distinction between the religious and literary in medieval Japan

The Tale of Saigyo

By Meredith McKinney
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies

A moving portrait of a wandering poet-monk in medieval Japan.

Rethinking Sorrow

Revelatory Tales of Late Medieval Japan

By Margaret Childs
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Religion, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Provides fresh translations and readings of a small, coherent subgroup of short stories that describe how people were inspired to religious commitment

They Came to Japan

An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, 1543-1640

Edited by Michael Cooper
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

A collection of European reports on Japan

Literary Patronage in Late Medieval Japan

Edited by Steven Carter
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies

Explores the changes in economic practices and structures in the late Muromachi period in Japan by focusing on patterns of patronage and professionalism in the world of poetry.

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